As part of his latest attempt to drive CPS to bankruptcy, Governor Rauner has attempted to transform himself into Tom Tresser.
In particular, Rauner directed Tony Smith and James Meeks—appointees who run the state board of education—to order Chicago Public Schools to turn over specific information regarding its budget, payroll, and bond obligations.
In particular, I suspect Rauner wants to use whatever dirt he unearths as an excuse to cut state aid to CPS. Thus, forcing CPS to pay exorbitant fees to Wall Street to borrow more money.
Mick Dumke, my First Tuesdays partner in crime, started this crusade back in the days when we were tag teaming it here at the Reader.
OK, Rauner didn’t put it that way exactly, but in so many words.
“You leave me little notes on my pillow. `We’re all out of corn flakes. F.U.’ It took me three hours to figure out that F.U. was Felix Unger.”
